NURS 4310 Strategies for Professional Nursing: The Family Across the Lifespan

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course focuses on the family as a basic unit of society and promotion of family health across the lifespan in partnership with the nurse. Opportunity is provided to apply nursing theory and family assessment data to customize a plan of care using the nursing process in the family's primary setting. Topics include variables affecting families, family assessment, adaptive problems, anticipatory guidance, teaching, family development theory, sexuality and aging.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. Design nursing processes to provide comprehensive care to families across different family development stages and family types and in structured-unstructured settings, simple-complex situations, and predictable-unpredictable circumstances.
   
2. Create partnerships with *patients in the customized therapeutic care process to protect, promote, and restore optimal health to families.
   
3. Incorporate therapeutic communication skills with families.
   
4. Evaluate practice decisions using critical thinking.
   
5. Evaluate strategies to improve nursing care to families through scholarship.
   
6. Manage, lead, and collaborate with health care providers from multiple disciplines to deliver quality care to families across levels of prevention and within organizational structures of diverse health care settings.
   
7. Adhere to ethical and legal conduct that reflect the standards of nursing practice with families.
   
8. Display behaviors that demonstrate the values of a self-directed professional engaged in continuing development.